The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.

I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"

It's very hard to tour.

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.